The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-07

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inseparability."
Neither is Christian science the
working of miracles. 1t lays no claim
to a power of interfering with the es-
tablished course of nature for the
purpose of demonstrating the divinity
of a commission given to some mortal
man which it withheld from others.
for We hold that all persons can Gf so
disposed) attain to such an under
standing of the divine principle of
life, truth and love as to apply it in
the cure of sin and sickness.
The following extract from a
Chicago religious paper, sent forth to
the world within the last month as the
opinion of its editor concerning Mrs.
Eddy's book ON science and health,
will serve to show the necessity of cor
recting another misrepresentation con-
corning the nature of Christian
science.
He says, In the conclusion of an
editorial on SIS 1t a Christian
Science But what a narrow
foundation of fact upon which to
build such a structure of Pantheism,
Swedenborgianism. Buddhism, and
downright inGdelity as is presented
to readers in this perncious book"
For the information of that reverend
brother and all whom he may repre-
sent, including the more recent criti-
cism of that learned divine who
seems to think that it is neither
science or Christian, we can assure
them that Christian science differs
widely from the thing that he named
"Pantheism" Gas defined by an able
writer, as distinguished from theism,
asserts the substantially of God and
nature. Its rudest form is a uni
versal fetichism. In its philosophy
cal development it makes God the
one substance of which all pheno-
mena of mind and nature are bat
modes or attributes. He is
THE IMPERsoNAL ABSOLUTE,
Who sleeps in the mineral, dreams in
the animal and wakes in man. God
is nature pervaded and inspired by
an imminent principle and nature
is God, in the manifestations of His
essence or the evolution of His pow
err"
In answering, or. rather, correcting,
this false conception of Christian
science, need only refer the reader
to our former accepted definition of
God and the following brief extract
from Mrs. Eddy's book: "God is
spirit, and spirit is infinite. y =
The infinite never entered the finite.
x So mind never passed
into matter, the unlimited into limits
spirit is never in limits or limbo"
''Matter is neither intelligence nor
creator 1--WE must break the fet-
tiers of belief, that would imprisson
mind in matter" | presume these
quotations are enough to show the
great difference between Christian
science and pantheism. As for being
a modification of Buddhism our critic
is equally at sea. DIR. Nichols in his
book, "Whence, What, Where?"
quoting from an able writer on the re-
ligion of Buddha, says: "It is a re-
ligion which teaches as one of its car
cardinal doctrines that existence is
wretchedness, and the love of it q
feeling to be suppressed and exter-
minated; that the highest happiness
attainable on earth is in the extinc-
tion of all natural desires and afec-
tions. and the only heaven beyond is
utter andf final humiliation" Moth
ing can be farther removed from
Christian science than such doctrine
as this. We teach that the real mans
existence or life Is in God, as Paul
says: elm Him We live, move and
have orr being" That the spiritual
man, which is the only man, is In the
image and likeness of Deity, and that
as each Individual in his spiritual ma
ture is an expression of a thought of
the infinite mind, his identity is eter-
nal, his happiness complete and
HIS BEING INDEsTRUCTIBLE.
That recognition and understanding
of the reality of mans spiritual nature
and bis essential union with God (for
he has no existence apart from HIM
enables him so to control this material
pretension to his true selfhood as to
destroy the mortal mind, love of sin,
cure its beliefs of sickness, and con-
vert even this earthly dream of exist
ence with all its apparent reality of
suffering, into the very suburbs of
heaven.
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pointing out our differences with the
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